Programme
Challenger Programme 2018
For a detailed programme download here: Challenger Conference Programme
| Monday 10th Sept | |
| 12.00 – 17:00 | Registration Lindisfarne Room, Hadrian Centre |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Ice Breaker Drinks Reception, Boiler House, Main Campus |
| Tuesday 11th Sept |
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| 08:00 – 17:00 | Registrations/Exhibitors/Poster Sessions Lindisfarne Room, Hadrian Centre |
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Conference Sessions Herschel Building |
| Wednesday 12th Sept | |
| 08:00 – 17:00 | Registrations/Exhibitors/Poster Sessions Lindisfarne Room, Hadrian Centre |
| Conference Sessions Herschel Building |
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| 19:00 – 23:00 | Conference Dinner Stephenson Suite, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Stephenson Quarter, Hawthorn Square, Forth Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 3SA |
| Thursday 13th Sept | |
| 08:00 – 17:00 | Registrations/Exhibitors/Poster Sessions Lindisfarne Room, Hadrian Centre |
| Conference Sessions Herschel Building |
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Session themes are as follows:
1. Oceans and climate: tantalising new future predictions.
2. From physics to fish: ecosystem interactions and physical controls.
3. The power of microbes: microbial biogeochemistry, processes, mixotrophy etc.
4. Fuel for ocean life: nutrient sources, limitation, controls, importance / geochemistry.
5. Technology and instrumentation: Innovation in autonomy and remote data acquisition.
6. The rising tide of human impact: Plastics, pollution, large to nano-scale impacts.
7. Sequencing the seas: The potential and limitations of eDNA for marine science.
8. The marine extremes: From polar, chemosynthetic, and deep environments.
9. On the sea shelf: physics, biogeochemistry and biology on the continental margins.
